Rendering seems slow, am I getting the most out of my hardware?
I never used it but the e-cycles plugin might help if you had to keep the subdivision :
https://blendermarket.com/products/e-cycles
« What’s more, thanks to a new option called &quot;Persistent Data&quot;, for fly-through animations where only the camera moves, E-Cycles only needs to do the pre-processing step once for all frames. In the example above, rendering takes just 3 seconds per frame on a single GPU. In this case, the persistent data option saves 7 seconds of pre-processing per frame. »